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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It's the curtain coming up on another act.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.
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- Nov 07, 2020